Egg beater



March 12, 1940. R. B. LIENHARD EGG BEATER Filed Dec. 15, 1939 Patented Mar. 12, 1940 UNITED STATES OFFiCEi EGG BEATER Richard B. Lienhard, Newington, Conn, assignor to The Taplin Manufacturing Company, New Britain, Conn, a corporation of Connecticut Application December 15, 1939, Serial No. 309,426

jzolaims. (or. 259-131) This invention relates to the frame construction of those culinary utensils which are furnished for beating eggs, cream, meringues, batter and kindred food constituents, which are commonly known as center drive egg heaters.

The object of the invention is to design the frame which carries the handle, drive gear, pinions and dashers of such an article, of elements which are relatively inexpensive to manufacturew and which can be easily andquickly manipulated so as to be locked together into a firm and durable assembly.

In the accompanying drawing Fig. 1 shows The frame of the beater illustrated comprises two side bars I, a U-shaped rod 2 and a locking cap 3. The handle 4 is fastened between the 30 upper ends of the side bars, the drive gear 5 is rotatably mounted between the side bars, and the dasher 6 and pinions l to which the dashers are secured, are rotatably supported by the rod, in a customary manner. 35 The lower ends of the side bars have tongues 8 that are bent angularly outward, and a short distance up from these tongues are holes 53. The upper ends of the dasher rod are bent to form outwardly projecting fingers i8 which are of a 40 size to fit the holes 9.

The locking cap which covers and protects the pinions has a central transverse groove it through which the lower edge of the drive gear turns, and two transverse slots i 2 of a length equal to the width of the tongued ends of the side bars and of a width equal to the thickness of the tongues. The inner edges of the slots have recesses l3 and the outer edges of the slots have recesses l4.

50 In assembling the elements of this beater the dashers and pinions are placed upon the dasher rod and the upper ends of the rods bent out to form the fingers ill. The cap is then located on the dasher rod over the pinions, the recesses I3 55 and I4 allowing the passage of the fingers at vertical position until the tongue 8 extends under the side bars, the driving gear located between the ends of the dasher rod through the cap.

v The tongue 8 of one side bar is, with the bar in a horizontal plane, placed in a slot l2 in the cap, as illustrated in Fig. 2, and the bar turned to a the cap and the finger H3 at the end of the dasher rod springs .into'the hole 9 in the side bar, as seen in Fig. 3, The other side bar is then manipulated in the same way.

With both of the side bars vertical and prac- 10 tically parallel they may be joined together and held from separation by securing them to an interposed tubular thimb le i5. The handle may then, be fastened between the upper ends of 5 the side bars and the crank spindle I6 passed through it and the side bars.

With the construction described the engagement-with the side bars above the cap of the fingers at the ends of the dasher rod and the engagement of the tongues at the ends of the side bars with the under side of the cap hold the element from longitudinal separation, and the cap through which the side bars and dasher rod pass prevent lateral separation also twisting of the elements with relation to each other.

The invention claimed is: 1. A frame for a heater of the character described which comprises a pair of side bars having a handle secured between their upper ends and having outwardly extending tongues at their lower ends and perforations above the tongues,

rotatable on its lower sections and having outwardly extending fingers at its upper ends, and

a pinion enclosing cap having near its outer ends transversely extending slots with longitudinally extending recesses in their edges, said slots being of a size to receive the side bar tongues and the recesses being of a size to receive the dasher rod fingers, whereby the fingered ends of the dasher rod may be passed upward through the recesses and the tongued. ends of the side bars passed downward through the slots outside of the ends of the dasher rod and the side bars turned upward until its tongues project outward against the under face of the cap and the dasher rod fingers spring outward into the perforations in the side bars, and the cap, the dasher rod and the side bars be locked thereby against separatongues, a U-shaped dasher rod having outwardly extending fingers at its upper ends, and a cap having near its ends transversely extending slots with longitudinally extending recesses, said tongues extending downward through said slots and projecting outward against the imder face of the cap, and said fingers extending upward through said recesses inside of the tongues and projecting outward into the perforations in the bars, said elements being held assembled by the engagement of the bars and rod ends with each other and with the walls of the slots and recesses in the cap and by the engagement of said tongues with the under face of the cap and the projections of said fingers into the perforations in the bars.

RICHARD B. LIENHARD. 

